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Law and revolution in South Africa : Ubuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation

Title
Law and revolution in South Africa : Ubuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation / Drucilla Cornell.
Author
Cornell, Drucilla
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

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Description
xviii, 210 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Just ideas, transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought
Uniform Title
Just ideas.
Subject
  • Constitutional law > South Africa
  • Respect for persons > Law and legislation > South Africa
  • Customary law > South Africa
  • Ubuntu (Philosophy)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index.
Contents
Is technology a fatal destiny? : Heidegger's for South Africa and all "developing" countries -- Socialism or radical democratic politics? : on Laclau and Mouffe -- Dignity violated : rethinking AZAPO through uBuntu -- Which law, whose humanity? : the significance of policulturalism in the Global South -- Living customary law and the law : does custom allow for a woman to be Hosi? -- uBuntu, pluralism, and the responsibility of legal academics -- Rethinking ethical feminism through uBuntu -- Is there a difference that makes a difference between dignity and uBuntu? -- Where dignity ends and uBuntu begins : a response by Yvonne Mokgoro and Stuart Woolman.
Call Number
Sc E 14-1203
ISBN
  • 9780823257577 (cloth)
  • 0823257576 (cloth
  • 9780823257584 (pbk.)
  • 0823257584 (pbk.)
LCCN
2013037280
OCLC
858778116
Author
Cornell, Drucilla, author.
Title
Law and revolution in South Africa : Ubuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation / Drucilla Cornell.
Publisher
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Just ideas, transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought
Just ideas.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-1203
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